“Awe-inspiring. One of the more complicated operatic enterprises to have been attempted since Richard Wagner staged The Ring of the Nibelung in 1876. Hopscotch triumphantly escapes the genteel, fenced-off zone where opera is supposed to reside.”
— Alex Ross, The New Yorker
HOPSCOTCH
From the LA River to the Bradbury Building, from rooftops to abandoned parking lots, from inside an Airstream to the back of a limousine zooming through the unsuspecting city streets, The Industry’s audacious mobile opera Hopscotch took Los Angeles by storm in Fall 2015.
“A defamiliarizing and ultimately haunting journey through the cityscape. With fantastical dream sequences and arias that describe the existence of parallel universes, Hopscotch is less a traditional plot than a trippy exploration of time and memory.”
— Will Robin, New York Times
“A masterpiece of logistics and a remarkable fusion of variety and consistency. Hopscotch has broken the fourth wall with a vengeance, not merely freeing opera from the opera house, but making its heightened expression the sound of real, everyday and inner life.”
— Heidi Waleson, Wall Street Journal
